International Foundation for Holistic Education

The  International Foundation for Holistic Education was founded in 1992 by Dr. Ramon Gallegos Nava in Guadalajara, Mexico, to spread holistic education in Mexico and Latin America as a response to a current crisis in environmental degradation due to a mechanicist education which has trained human beings to have a predatory consciousness.

The Fundacion seeks the emergence of a new planetary consciousness through a new educational paradigm of wholeness and nature, that allows us to teach human beings to live together in a responsible way in sustainable communities. To overcome predatory consciousness based on greed, materialism, and self-centeredness, the Foundation believes that it is important to know our true nature as human beings.

The core of holistic education is our genuine spirituality – understanding this in a non-dogmatic way. Spirituality is our true nature which leads us to have a sentiment of gratitude for life and reverence for our planet in which we live. Holistic education is a pedagogy of universal love towards all beings.

The International Foundation for Holistic Education  organises an annual international conference on Holistic Education in Mexico. (Click here to see presentations from the 8th International Conference held in 2000.)